Websites for Founders.
You have a product to build and a runway to protect. The site should carry the design your product deserves, and keeping it running should stay off your desk.
What the site has to do
- Start from finished Download a finished template the moment you pay, or brief a build and skip the discovery theatre.
- The license never expires Buy a template once and it never rebills. Read the source, change it, hand it to any developer you like.
- Running it is our job Hosting and integrations sit on the subscription, so the site never becomes your Saturday.
- Look funded before you are The bar is what the category leader ships, and that is the bar we build to.
Should a founder buy a template or commission a custom build?
Speed favours a template. Exclusivity favours a build. A template is a finished site, priced once, and yours to run the moment payment settles. That build is drawn around one business alone and never sold to a second one.
Most founders start with a template, because a runway rarely stretches to a design built around them before the product itself is proven. The template is still yours to change, on any host, for as long as you keep the business running. A build usually makes more sense once the brand itself is settled enough to be worth defending on its own.
The question that actually decides it is not the budget, it is who edits the site in three months. The difference between a template, a build and a plan is written around that one question.
What happens to a founder's website once the company outgrows it?
Nothing about a founder's website is rented. A template's licence covers one live site, and the file underneath is yours to open and change for as long as the business runs. Paying a build off in full moves further still: the copyright in the design and content is assigned to you, not merely licensed for use.
That matters most on the day a founder hires a first developer. The files are already yours, the access is already yours, and the licence has no end date. The site can move to another host or another developer entirely, and cancelling a hosting plan afterwards does not touch what you own.
A founder who rewrites the product every quarter still keeps the same site underneath, with different words and photos in it, because ownership was never conditional on staying a customer. Nothing about that depends on which plan, if any, is still active.
Does a founder need to sort out hosting before launch?
A founder needs a place to put the site, but not a whole separate project to get it there. Hosting, the database behind any forms, and the third party tools a site talks to are all covered by one subscription, so there is nothing extra to wire up before launch day arrives.
A domain is the one thing kept outside that subscription. It is bought and renewed on its own, the same as it would be anywhere else, and no plan here assumes you already have one.
Most founders treat this as a solved problem rather than a project, because stitching together a registrar, a host and a database by hand is exactly the kind of week a founder with a product to launch cannot spare. The subscription exists so that week never has to happen at all.
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